Community proof
The Space Centre looks better when the lights are on and people are inside.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Photo: BC + AI community archive.
Oct 28–30, 2026 · Vancouver, BC
Three days for the most honest AI conversation happening this year.
Futureproof Festival is an international AI culture and ideas festival at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association.
Dates
October 28–30, 2026
Festival home
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Presented by
BC + AI Ecosystem Association
Community proof
The community is already in the room.
Futureproof Festival grows from BC + AI, Vancouver AI, and Film Club gatherings. These photographs show the people and Space Centre setting behind the invitation.
Community proof
The community talks back. That is the point.
Photo: Michelle Diamond - Vancouver AI Meetup - 2026
Community proof
The room is already real. A Space Centre audience paying attention, no rented buzz.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Community proof
Stage energy from the community that becomes Futureproof Festival. Not rented attention.
Photo: Michelle Diamond - Vancouver AI Meetup - 2026
Community proof
Film, performance, and AI culture are already in the mix, causing the good kind of trouble.
Photo: Michelle Diamond - BC + AI Film Club - 2026
Six signals
What brings you to the conversation?
Six signals name the questions and communities in the invitation. They are not a published schedule.
Creativity
Film, performance, creative practice, and the strange weather AI makes in public.
Ethics
Critical voices staying at the table until moral weight becomes practice.
Community
Actual people finding their role in the work instead of watching the show.
Builders
Demos, craft, small models, open tools, and receipts over pitch decks.
Literacy
Plain-language confidence for people who refuse to be dazzled or dismissed.
Resilience
Gathering humans while the tools pull attention apart.